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a scene from a science fiction film. While on a long space trip, the astronaut is sleeping like a hibernation and is drawing a technique that activates the body as usual afterwards. The.

Tokyo's Yoo Seong-jae, a correspondent reports, will really be able to do something like a movie.

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is a science fiction movie about the passengers of the spaceship moving to another planet while hibernating in the hibernation system.

It stops aging in hibernation and overcomes flight times longer than human life.

However, mammals, such as humans, do not hibernate, except for some, such as bears and bats, and have been dismissed only in the field of science fiction, and the Japanese research team has produced interesting research on artificial hibernation.

After stimulating the so-called'Q neurons' in the hypothalamus of the mouse's brain, the drug revealed that the mouse had hibernated.

The body temperature, which was 37 degrees, fell to around 24 degrees, stayed hibernating for about a week, and when the drug was stopped, it returned to normal.

The research team concluded that the'Q cells' that most mammals possess have a kind of'switch' that creates hibernation.

[Sunagawa/Japan Institute of Chemical Research: The body temperature and metabolism are not constantly low like general anesthesia, but it is a'low metabolism' that sets targets and regulates the condition of the body.]

If research is progressed to make it possible for humans, a breakthrough in the field of emergency medicine is also expected.

[Sakurai/Japan Professor at Tsukuba University: (In case of emergency) If oxygen is not properly supplied, damage to tissues occurs. If it is possible to induce artificial hibernation, the oxygen or nutrients necessary for the tissue are at least.] If

artificial metabolism can lower metabolism to the limit, it is predicted that it will be useful for mankind's entry into space like an SF movie.

(Video coverage: Chulmin Han, Video editing: Hojin Kim, video provided by Tsukuba University Institute of Physics)